Posts From Curriculum Category

Oct

Piecing Together Our Vision: Love, Learn, Shine in Mosaic Magic!

Posted In Community, Curriculum

Back in June and July of last year children in Year Six designed three mosaics to showcase our school vision and then worked with the Artizan group from Harrogate to bring their designs to life.  Artizan International enables, empowers and supports people with disabilities to meet their full potential through therapeutic craft activities and social […]

Oct

Unearthing Creativity: Starlings Class Reimagines Cave Art with a Harrogate Twist

Posted In Curriculum

Starlings Class – Exploring Cave Art This week, Starlings class have been delving into the fascinating world of Cave Art. Through a combination of sketching, stencilling, rubbing, and printing, the children have developed their artistic skills to create their own modern cave-inspired masterpieces. Their artwork features animals that might be spotted around Harrogate—can you guess […]

Oct

Pet Plants arrive at St Peter’s 

Posted In Curriculum, Events

Pet Plants arrive at St Peter’s  Last Friday the Climate Crew had their first meeting where they planted and delivered a spider ‘pet’ plant for every class in school. There are many benefits to having plants in the classroom including: fresher air, improved wellbeing, connecting children to the environment, use as a lesson subject and […]

Oct

VR Bringing Curriculum to Life

Posted In Curriculum, Events

We were delighted to welcome former Headteacher and now educational Virtual Reality (VR) expert Justin Peoples into school today to lead a series of workshops for children in Key Stage Two. Justin wrote bespoke workshops for children in Starlings, Herons Ravens and Eagles based around two key Geography objectives of Understand and explain the difference […]

Sep

St Peter’s Launches Sustainability Shop

Posted In Community, Curriculum, Notices

Welcome to the St Peter’s sustainable shop! Our sustainable school shop is committed to a greener future. We offer an eco-friendly marketplace for families to sell or gift their pre-loved school uniform, toys, books, coats, shoes, trainers, footballs, wellies or anything else you would like to pass to another family to enjoy. This group aims to […]

Sep

EY and KS1 Story Night & Phonics Evening

Posted In Community, Curriculum, Events

We were delighted to welcome so many families back to school on Tuesday evening this week for our Phonics evening and story night event. Children from reception through to year two returned to school in the evening in pyjamas and armed with their favourite cuddly toy to enjoy stories in our newly refurbished Early Year […]

Sep

Climate Crew Updates

Posted In Curriculum, Events

Playground planting! Mrs Williams, last year’s Climate Crew and some helpers were very busy on Thursday planting on the playground! In the shelter planters, we planted strawberries and heater. We also planted some mint and more heather around the playground. All the plants were funded by the money raised by the Climate Crew stall at […]

Sep

Kindness Grows

Posted In Curriculum

It all starts with a crack that we can hardly see, It happens when we shout or if we disagree. But with every kindness that we care to show Something good and magical will begin to grow.   Angry words cause a crack to open up, but find out what happens when kindness begins to […]

Jul

Year 6 Prayer Spaces

Posted In Curriculum, Events, Worship

Following a very successful prayer spaces week earlier in the year, we were delighted to welcome Karin and the team for St Peter’s and St Paul’s churches back for a special end of year prayer spaces event for our children in Year 6. The team transformed the hall of St Paul’s church into a wonderful […]

Jul

Come Dine with Us!

Posted In Curriculum

Come Dine with Us! This week, as part of our DT/food technology, Eagles and Ravens created an array of fabulous pepper and cream cheese starters. The children were simply given the ingredients and brief (bake off style) then challenged to use their creativity and foodie flair to make a starter! Once the dishes were complete, […]